All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .” “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested. “Perfect, ” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

... friends are such a mixed blessing.

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

Work hard on your style, not on your watermarks.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.